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Quotes About Excitement

On with the chase.
~ Gordon Korman
This is just our hobby, Dan answered quickly. Instead of collecting stamps, we find creepy old places and poke around.
~ Gordon Korman
The sounds provide as much variety as the sights—sirens, honking horns, squealing brakes, blaring stereos, leaf blowers, jackhammers, excited shouts. It's like a guy who's been fed bread and water his whole life suddenly stumbling into a humongous feast with every kind of food and drink imaginable.
~ Gordon Korman
The calendar appears in my mind, that magical date in June circled in gold Sharpie. Only 172 more school days to go.
~ Gordon Korman
Shhh," her brother whispered. "I think we're on the yacht." She got shakily to her feet. The deck pitched slightly.
~ Gordon Korman
None of this is quite true but Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.
~ Gore Vidal
Dan was in store for a ride bumpier than any game of Quidditch could ever be.
~ Grace Norwich
Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.
~ Graham Greene
When a train pulls into a great city I am reminded of the closing moments of an ouverture.
~ Graham Greene
La había escuchado con asombro y con cierta inquietud. Por primera vez advertía los peligros que me acechaban. Me sentí como arrastrado tras ella hacia una absurda empresa de caballeros andantes como Sancho Panza tras Don Quijote, sólo que en busca de lo que ella llamaba diversión, en vez de hidalguía.
~ Graham Greene
Excitement is simple: excitement is a situation, a single event. It mustn't be wrapped up in thoughts, similes, metaphors. A simile is a form of reflection, but excitement is of the moment when there is no time to reflect. Action can only be expressed by a subject, a verb and an object, perhaps rhythm -- little else. Even an adjective slows the pace or tranquilizes the nerve.
~ Graham Greene
Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.
~ Greg Behrendt
Falling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.
~ Greg Behrendt
Machine guns, missile launchers, grappling hooks and cables—what more could a girl want?
~ Greg Cox
There's no time to waste, Kai said. He did a backflip off the tower and ran off. What is it with that guy? Jay asked. Always in a rush!
~ Greg Farshtey
THE MOST CURRENT AND HIGH ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ATTREBUS
~ Greg Keyes
their stories, tell their tales, pose for pictures, and shake their heads for the TV cameras. As one high school student told the reporter from the Today show, "Nothing much ever happens around here, so this is kind of fun. Sad, but fun at the same time.
~ Gregg Olsen
I understood their hopeful, innocent excitement, and in a small and distant way I even shared it.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There was too much that I didn't understand. There was too much that I wouldn't allow myself to ask. And I was excited, in that web of connections and concealments. The scent of danger, the smell of fear, filled my senses.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Word had spread that the foreigner was arriving.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Aren't you flirting with danger yourself?
~ Gregory David Roberts
She walked out with Prabaker, and I spun around on one foot, whispering a shout of joy while I did an excited little dance.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There was hope and fearful excitement in the new.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Don't worry... It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.
~ Gregory David Roberts